At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, October 8, 2015 during the MRC’s annual gala, one of three nominees for the “Damn Those Conservatives to Hell Award.”
NBC correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin: “When you juxtapose it [the movie American Sniper] with the real Chris Kyle and what has emerged about what kind of personality he was.... a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims as he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues-”
Host Joe Scarborough: “Wait, wait. Killing sprees? Chris Kyle was going on killing sprees?”
Mohyeldin: “When he was involved in his — on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book, and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist in his personal attitudes about what he was doing overseas when he was on assignment.”
– MSNBC’s Morning Joe, January 29, 2015.